Wikipedia Experiences

Global Voices Summit 2017, an annual summit organized by Global Voices, was held in Colombo on Dec 2, 3. I attended the summit along with Mr. Mayooranathan to represent Tamil Wikipedia community. The event was held at Trace Expert City, Colombo 10 over the weekend of Dec 2 & 3. The event started around 10 am and I attended the inaugural session at the main building and then went to the Open Street Maps session that held at a one of the tents outside the main building. That was a useful session as a Wikipedian who wants to promote open and free access. Both sessions on Wikipedia were scheduled after lunch. Mayooranathan started the presentation on Tamil Wikipedia in the first session after lunch. He presented the history and potential. I continued the presentation, explaining the current status and how the recent contest that we had in Tamil Wikipedia to improve the most important 1000 articles that every Wikipedia should have. Few participants from the Summit attended the sess